Last week saw the release of FFmpeg 4.0 – it’s been 7 months after a major 3.4 release. Most useful improvements, I think, are the following: H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8/9 decoders – all using hardware acceleration NVIDIA NVDEC AV1 codec is now suppoted using libaom AMD AMF powered encoders for H.264 and HEVC […]

KDE just released the latest set of improvements to its desktop environment, Plasma. KDE Plasma 5.9.0 is a release targeted at further improving productivity of a power user. Perhaps one of the most awaited features of this release is the return of the Global Menus – you can once again show application menus either at […]

USB memory sticks are replacing the DVD as the go to method of installing Linux, but what if you find yourself in that rare situation of having access to neither? There is a way, and even if you don’t particularly need it, it’s a great learning experience that could come in handy. What you don’t […]

With passwords still being the most common method of authentication remembering or keeping them in a safe place can still be a challenge. While there are third party services such as LastPass that can help tremendously in this regard you might not be inclined to trust or depend on a third party for such an […]

One way or another you’re actually using Linux every day. Linux is the dominant platform on web servers, including the one you’re on right now, and it is also the core of the Android operating system that you’re tapping away at all the time if you own an Android smartphone or tablet. Besides that it’s […]